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SCCM - Install dell drivers dynamically during OSD

The below script may be used in an SCCM task to download Dell drivers from :
"http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/2065.dell-command-deploy-driver-packs-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment" to a PC being imaged.

Create a Dell group in the task sequence
Run the Powershell Script to filter dell systems with the WMI query as shown below.

So i was recently tasked with removing wireless restrictions from a VP's windows 7 laptop that some infrastructure company had placed while contracted with our network, since he needed to enable setting up of adhoc connections on his laptop and he always got

"The policies of your network prevent the creation of ad hoc (computer-to-computer) networks. For more information, contact your system administrator."

A little bit of probing revealed that adhoc and peer to peer connections were blocked as evidenced by the the command

netsh wlan show filter on an elevated command prompt revealed that adhoc network type was blocked by group policy:

I removed the restrictions by:

1: open services.msc as administrator, scroll down to WLAN AutoConfig:

Open gpedit.msc and browse to the location /Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Internet Communication Management/Internet Communication Settings and double click "turn off access to all windows update features" and set it to disabled.

We had a migration from Hosted Exchange to Office 365 and i was tasked with automating the local Outloook profile migration for Users:

I Created a GUI utility using powershell which would allow users to create an Office365 Profile and set it as default, I prepared PRF files for each version of office and an autodiscover.xml to be used for local autodiscover and uploaded them to a hosted site:

The PRF file to set settings for Office 365 are hard to find: i used the below entries: